• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio is back with a new season focused on African club culture. Our first stop is Cairo with Egyptian music journalist Maha El Nabawi. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Revisiting the films of Malian-born author and filmmaker Manthia Diawara.

• Vik Sohonie

Music’s ingratiating moral mask has withered, revealing a disfigured face whose true ethical philosophy is, as Lauryn Hill once noted, “paper thin.”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In his new book, the Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani argues that breaking cycles of violence requires collective action. He finds hope in the unfinished project of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle.

• Victor Makanjuola
• Matthew M. Heaton

Many of the continent’s most highly trained mental health professionals migrate outside Africa. The result, sadly, makes global inequalities in access to mental health, worse.

• Dika Ofoma

In the Nigerian film 'La Femme Anjola,' which delights with brilliant performances, no one is exactly who they seem.

• Christoph Vogel

Academic journals pride themselves on “blind peer-review.” However, what if all that’s blind is the reckoning with inherent systemic discrimination?

• Dina A. Ramadan

Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian-American painter, defies expectations that artists of color should produce representational work.

• Michael Ugarte

The film Adú justly calls attention to Europe’s closed borders, but neglects to examine why people are migrating from Africa.

• Ana Vinea

The increasing visibility of Qur’anic healing in Cairo intersects with psychiatry’s growing foothold in public awareness, creating fertile ground for debates about affliction, care, and expertise.

• Julie MacArthur

Muammar Gaddafi occupies a contested space in the histories of postcolonial Africa. What about his Libyan opponents?

• Marius Kothor

Raoul Peck's 'Exterminate All the Brutes' missed the opportunity to engage with the history of colonialism in a way that empowers viewers to imagine a future in which whiteness is not the locus of power and authority.

• Haythem Guesmi

تكمن فرادة حالة العدمية في أفريقيا كتاريخ وحضارة وشعوب في ارتباطها المتشعب بواقع دموي عنيف من جهة وصيرورة رؤى طوباوية من جهة أخرى، كما يعبر عنه كل من رواية "ذوي الجمال لم يولدوا بعد" للكاتب الغاني ايي كواي أرما وفيلم "آخر أيام المدينة" للمخرج المصري تامر سعيد.

• Sloan Mahone

How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.

• Emeka Ugwu

Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph was a prominent left nationalist in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. Then he was forgotten. How do we commemorate him?

• James Yeku

Anyone who cares about civil society, free speech, and human rights should find the state’s digital silencing of its citizens deeply troubling.

• John Gutierrez

Mexican American director John Gutierrez new film, set in Cape Town, South Africa, touches on colonialism, displacement, and man’s complicated relationship with nature.

• Katie Kilroy-Marac

French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.

• Ousmane Zoromé Samassekou
• Aïcha Macky

An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.

• Lily Saint

There can no longer be false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes, and other pilfered materials, in museums outside of Africa.